Due to long-standing experience and a specially trained expert team the Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery at the university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar, under the direction of Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Hans-Günther Machens, is nationally and internationally recognized as a leader in plastic and hand surgery. The Department offers the full spectrum of modern Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand surgery. In addition, the specialists of this department have experts and experienced in other areas. Thanks to the modern methodology, many operations can be carried out on an outpatient basis without general anaesthesia. Therefore, the patients are spared unnecessary stays in hospital.

The Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, under the direction of Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Hans-Günther Machens, offers state-of-the-art treatment in the following areas:

Reconstructive Surgery (with a special focus on microsurgical tissue transplantation)

Covering of defects caused by accident or a tumor

Tumor surgery, also including

Tumors of the mammary glands

Soft tissue tumors in the trunk and extremities

Tumors of the skin and mucosa

Tumors of the head and neck

Bone tumors

Decubitus surgery

Motoric replacement operations

Reconstructive surgery after complete burns of the whole body.

Breast surgery

Surgery of deformities and asymmetries of the mammary gland and nipple